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TRIPSICHORE INTENSIVE STUDY COURSE September 10 - October
5, 2012
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INTENSIVE STUDY COURSE
FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR PRACTICE
Next Course: September 10 - October 5, 2012
PLEASE NOTE: We have made the decision
to change our previously programmed 500 hour Teacher Training into a month long Tripsichore Intensive. Our
reasons for this change are numerous, but, in substance, amount to our strongly held feeling that what we offer in an Intensive
is of far greater worth. We feel that the physically and philosophically complicated practice that the
Tripsichore style offers is not something that can be mastered from a teaching perspective in the time allotted and respecting
the requirements the Yoga Alliance makes for a 500 hour teacher training. In our opinion, the work on the
specifics of the practice itself are of greater importance to a prospective Tripsichore teacher. In short,
people who are seeking to improve their teaching skills are better served for the hours spent in the studio, time in London,
and the money invested in our course by working in depth on their understanding of the Tripsichore practice.
The challenge of the Tripsichore
Intensive is to understand and articulate the philosophical orthodoxies of a difficult and advanced vinyasa practice in the
context of yoga as it has been practiced in the distant past as well as how it is done today. We feel that
those who take up this challenge will find it rewarding for themselves as both practitioners and as teachers.
It is also, perhaps, worth noting that it also removes the pressure, both to ourselves and to the participants, of
determining worthiness of certification.
The course will
now be from September 10 – October 5, 2012 and runs from 9:00 – 5:00 Mondays through Fridays. We
will only be accepting 10 participants and it is on a first come first served basis.
We are
giving this course in response to our perceived need for a form of yoga training that addresses aspects of yoga with
an intensity that goes beyond what happens in a studio class, workshop, retreat or on a teacher training.
Curiously, at present, the most intensive training these days occurs in teacher trainings, but these, rightly, consider
the needs of a teacher rather than the practitioner. We recognise that many people seek a profound yoga training to enhance their abilities as teachers,
but that there are others who arenot concerned with becoming or improving as a teacher. Also, we wish to ensure that the standard of our futureTeacher
Trainings attract people of high calibre and feel this standard cannot be met unless people have had the opportunity to study
the Tripsichore techniques in the depth the Foundation Course provides.
The Intensive
Course is for those who already have a well developed practice and it should be stressed that it is an extremely
challenging course. Those who are wondering what that might entail are advised to look at the Tripsichore
Yoga DVD (available at www.pranamaya.com) . The Foundation
Course addresses the REGULAR Practice. The Foundation Course is designed to examine the techniques
of vinyasa yoga from the Tripsichore perspective. While it is intended to be a physically challenging course with attention
paid to the methods used to attain difficult inversions, back bends, etc., it is equally concerned with the philosophical
reasons for doing so. The subjects of pratayahara, dharana, dhyana, and drishti within a vinyasa context will be considered
and developed. We are endeavouring to develop yogis who wish to have both
amazing physical and contemplative practices.
Intensive Course
10 September – 5
October, 2012
Cost: £2,700
Requirements:
Comfortable
in freestanding Headstand with leg variations
Some knowledge of pranayama
A regular yoga practice Location: 41 Roundwood Road, London NW10 9TP UK Please
apply to: tripsichore@msn.com
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Some reviews
for the TRIPSICHORE TECHNIQUE in its DVD set:
“For the past 15 years [Tripsichore]
has developed its own unique brand of asana...the practices are a joy to watch and, along with the workshops, a treasure trove
of intriguing ideas.”
— Richard Rosen, Yoga Journal--
“Thanks
to this challenging and compellingly creative instructional DVD, advanced yoginis can finally skip a class or a self-practice.
In the two-disc set, Edward Clark, a student of yoga since 1978 and founder of the UK-based Tripsichore performance group
(www.tripsichore.com), reveals to the public for the first time the Tripsichore Yoga techniques that have dazzled onlookers
for decades.”
—
Sara Avant Stover, FitYoga Magazine--
“The DVD set highlighting their performance and practice aptly transfers to the
small screen. Even when they are linking together spectacular poses, such as lifting from wheel in handstand to arching variations
of handstand to wheel again, or in more simple movements, it is the smooth and watery transitions that create beauty.”
— Felicia M. Tomasko,
LA Yoga Magazine-----
“...Edward
Clark makes magic and entertains... The awe-inspiring virtuoso on the first disc could absorb anyone... Clark is like the
jazz musician of Surya Namaskar, always mixing up the notes, revivifying those who are ready for the challenge.”
— Molly Roemer, Yogi Times--- “...Edward has deliberately made the practice sequences quite challenging to give people
an opportunity to investigate their real potential by trying things they otherwise might never do. Challenging
they are. Even the Simple series would be a bit of a reach for most intermediate yoga students, except for those who have
an athleticism that combines considerable strength, flexibility and balance. Growing in complexity from strongly intermediate
to highly advanced, the sequences all start manageably with a basic sun salutation that has some distinctive Tripsichore movements,
such as arm circles in extended forward bend. But in the Regular and Plus sequences, Edward and Eileen really begin to take
you into some complex and difficult movements and postures. These are definitely not for beginners--and perhaps even beyond
many intermediate-level Ashtanga practitioners. Tripsichore’s techniques are likely to take you beyond your current
beliefs about physical, mental and energetic limitations--and perhaps to a deeper realization of the unity and flow of life.”
– Tim
Noworyta, Yoga Chicago
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A
seriously difficult Teacher Training
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